 “The American Civil War at Home,” the 2013 Signature Conference, is fifth in an annual series sponsored by the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission. This event will bring together prominent historians to talk about the home front and the meaning of emancipation to Americans enslaved and free.
Keynote Address
Eric Foner: Lincoln, Slavery, and Emancipation
Panel I: Emancipation and Its Limits
Panelists will consider how slavery ended, the relative significance of the Union Army and the slaves themselves in bringing it about, and the Union Army's unwillingness to fully use black soldiers as agents of emancipation.
Panel II: Internal Dissent in the Confederacy and the Union
Presenters consider how the war caused both Union and Confederate home fronts to fracture from within.
Scheduled
Speakers
Keynote Address: Eric Foner
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Edward L. Ayers
Thavolia Glymph |
Stephen Kantrowitz
Stephanie McCurry |
Stephen Ash
Matthew Gallman |
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